Deformable Templates for Face Recognition

1 January 1991

journal article
Published by MIT Press in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Vol. 3 (1) , 59-70
https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.1991.3.1.59

Abstract

We describe an approach for extracting facial features from images and for determining the spatial organization between these features using the concept of a deformable template. This is a parameterized geometric model of the object to be recognized together with a measure of how well it fits the image data. Variations in the parameters correspond to allowable deformations of the object and can be specified by a probabilistic model. After the extraction stage the parameters of the deformable template can be used for object description and recognition.

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